New Restoration/Milwaukee Premiere!

Cantopop superstars Anita Mui Yim-fong and Leslie Cheung Kwok-wing display their iconic androgynous magnetism as doomed lovers in this emblematic film of Hong Kong’s Second New Wave, directed by pioneering queer melodrama master Stanley Kwan. Rouge bridges past and present in its tragic romance between a humble courtesan and the wayward scion of a wealthy family, who embrace death by suicide pact amid the opulent teahouses of 1930s Hong Kong. Fifty years later, she returns to the city-state to find him, drawing a young contemporary couple into her quest to rekindle a passion that may be as illusory as time itself.

(Stanley Kwan, Hong Kong, Cantonese w/ English Subs, 96min, 1987, DCP)

Free for members (includes all UWM students). $5 for non-members. Memberships can be purchased at the Union Cinema.